Truck-basket



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No. 408.810. Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

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No. 408,810. Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

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LINDLEY MURRAY MOORE, OF ROCHESTER, NEIV YORK.

TRUCK-BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,810, dated August 13, 1889.

Application filed April 2'7, 1889- Serial No. 308,898. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LINDLEY MURRAY MOORE, of the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have i11- v'cnted certain new and useful Improvements in Truck-Baskets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an isometrical View of the basket-frame. Fig 2 is an isometrical view of the truck on which the same is placed. Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of the basket-frame. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of the three-way elbow of the frame. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 6 is an isometrical view of my basket when made with solid wood sides. Fig. '7 is an isometrical view of my basket with two of the sides hinged.

My invention relates to improvements in truck-baskets for use in clothing-stores, laundries, and for similar purposes.

In the drawings, A A A A represent four upright metal pipes or rods, eachinserted into one of the ways of a suitable three-way metal elbow.

B B B B represent four other metal pipes or rods, serving to connect said elbowsD D D D through the other ways thereof, thus forming a rectangular base-frame with four uprights A A A A. These rods or pipes may be screwed into elbows or rigidly fastened into the same in any suitable way. Through the upper sides of the pipes B B B B are drilled a suitable number of holes, into which are inserted the rods a Z). These rods being i11- serted, as shown, the basket is woven up, in the usual manner of weaving such articles, of willow, splints, rattan, wicker-work, or any other suitable material. In the form which I prefer the elbows D and E have the way for the insertion of the uprights A set inwardly toward the middle of the basket from the illtersection of the axes of the other two ways. (See Figs. 4 and 5.) This enables the splints or the other material of which the basket is woven or made to be turned around the corner uprights A A A A without making too protruding a corner. A suitable number of metal rods a, with the other rods Z), forming the woof of the basket, are inserted in the holes drilled in the rods or pipes B.

Vhen the basket is woven up nearly to the top of the uprights A, a frame of metal rods or pipes O O O 0, connected by three-way elbows such as h ereinbefore described, and having holes drilled through the lower side of said rods or pipes at suitable distances apart for the reception of the ends of the rods a l), is placed upon the top of the woven work, and the corner uprights A A A A are set into the sockets or ways in the elbows, and the woof-rods a l) are inserted into the sockets or holes prepared for them. A hole is then drilled diagonally through the way of each upper elbow and through the upright or rod A A A A, inserted therein, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and a pin or rivet (l is inserted through the same and rigidly fastened. In some cases it is suitable to insert a rod, as shown at a a in the figures, completely through the upper frame of the basket and the lower frame of the basket and to fasten the ends; but in most cases the corner fastening above described is sufficient and preferable. In some cases I prefer to make the woof-rods next the corner uprights of metal, as it tends to stiffen and strengthen the basket at a point where the weaving material receives its greatest strain in turning the corner around the uprights A A A A. The upper and lower frames of the basket, after having been fastened by the pins d, as above described, are thus held rigid by means of the corner uprights A A A A and the intermediate upright metal rods a, while the remainder of the woof 17 Z) of the basket is composed, if desired, of a lighter material. This basket-frame is then set upon a suitable fiat truck, Fig. 2,and rigidly fastened to it in any suitable manner, as by the bolts 0, Fig. 3.

I prefer to make the frame of this basket out of iron pipe and with metal three-Way elbows for the corner pieces; but other suitable materials maybe used in their place. By the use of the pipes I am enabled to gain deep sockets for the woof-rods with much less drilling than would be necessary by using solid bars in their place.

Instead of making the sides of my basket of wicker-work, I may use the same frame as heretofore described; but the sides may be made of wooden boards or slats, which may be fastened to the iron woof-rods by staples or in any other suitable manner. I may also make these sides of sheet metal oropen metal work.

In order to give easier access to the contents of the basket, one or more of the sides may be hinged at the top or bottom, so as to lift or drop, and I may then make use of a separate frame-work for a side, as shown in Fig. 7, which may be filled in, as are the sides of the basket above described.

\\''hat I claim is 1. The combination, in a rectangulartruckbasket, of a frame composed of twelve rigid rods united at the corners by three-way elbows, the lower rods having a suitable number of sockets formed in their upper sides and the upper rods having the same number of sockets formed in their lower sides, with the woof-rods a 1), equal in number to the said sockets and inserted in the same, aportion of said woof-rods being of rigid material and the rmnainder being of a lighter material, and the warp or filling woven through said woof-rods around corner uprights A A A A, said uprights A A A A being socketed in the elbows E E E E and rigidly fastened into the same, substantially as shown and described.

:2. In atruek-basket, the combination of the lower frame composed of the rods B l3 l l rigidly connected together by the three-way elbows D D D D,with four uprights AAAA rigidly fastened into said elbows, the space between said uprights being filled with woven basket-work having woof-rods some of which are of metal and some of which are of lighter material, with the upper frame composed of the rods 0 C C and the three-wayelbowsE E E E, said woof-rods being inserted into sockets formed in the rods of the lower frame and in the rods of the upper frame, substantially as shown and described.

As a new article of manufacture,atruekbasket having a skeleton frame composed of a lower frame formed of the rods l3 B B 15, rigidly fastened into the three-way elbows D D l) D, uprights A A A A, rigidly fastened into said elbows, and an upper frame composed of rigid rods G C C C, rigidly fastened into elbows E E E E, said elbows having a socket for thereeeption of said uprights A A A A, spaces between said uprights being filled with suitalgile woven basket-work, the same being fastened upon a suitable truck, substantially as shown and described.

l. In a truck-basket, the combination of the rectangular lower frame composed of the rods B 13 ll 13, rigidly connected together by the three-way elbows D D I) I), with four uprights A A A A rigidly fastened into said elbows, and the upper frame composed of the rods (l O (l C, rigidly connected by the three-way elbows E E E E, said elbows having sockets into which are fastened the uprights AA A A, the spaces between said uprights being filled with suitable material to form the sides of the basket, for the purpose described.

L. MURRAY illOORE.

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